Bill's Locker

I will confess that I am very loyal to teams I feel a connection with.

So pardon me if I tell you I love the Madisonville-North Hopkins Maroons, Central Hopkins Storm, Pace Patriots, Milton Panthers, Jay Royals, Navarre Raiders, Gulf Breeze Dolphins, University of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University, Eastern Kentucky University, and the Tennessee Titans.

In one way other another I feel a very strong connection with through my years as a reporter/photographer and I am not ashamed of it one bit even though some of these teams could be considered offensive here in the south.

Because of my Pace and Kentucky connection there is one player that has chided me at different levels is Tim Tebow.

I hated it that he ended the run of Pace High School for the state football title and secondly because he always kicked the backsides of the Wildcats, which is bad to me since they are the school which issued me a diploma back in 1990.

But I have tried to remain objective of this polarizing athlete who is now the starter for the Denver Broncos.

I could hate Timmy because he can’t throw a football worth a flip, but this Sunday he could take what started out as a woeful and pitiful Broncos squad to the playoffs as he has conjured visions of Broncos General Manager John Elway.

Timmy Tebow has taken and fired up football fans in Denver just like he did in Gainesville as well as the community Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., where Nease High School is located.

Why has he fired up these communities?

Well you might not want to stand near me as I will tell you first off it is not a God thing, it is a Tebow thing.

God might have given him this gift, but Tebow has taken and nurtured the gift bestowed upon him.

In talking to Pace High head football coach the other day we agreed that Tim Tebow is a winner – bottom line.

After the Pace – Nease playoff game Lindsey and Urban Meyer talked about this same fact.

Unfortunately that is one thing people love to hate a winner.

Well despite how much I feel I should despise him besides the fact even my girlfriend thinks he is cute and took photos of him at the Senior Bowl, I cannot hate him because he is successful.

All of us should watch what he does, just like many of us did when some other questionable quarterbacks played.

I would like to remind you that Doug Williams was looked at as a failure as a quarterback in Tampa Bay but after a stint in the USFL he found a home in Washington, D.C. with the Redskins and not only won a Super Bowl, but the Super Bowl MVP trophy.

There was also Baltimore’s Trent Dilfer, whose job was not to lose the game as the Ravens won SB XXXV.

Even Terry Bradshaw, who won four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers, wasn’t the most popular quarterback with Chuck Noll.

Yet all of these individuals were winners.

And I am not even going to challenge the issues people bring up about his faith.

All I am going to say is leave Timmy alone and let him play football.

It might not always be pretty, but it was never pretty watching Fran Tarkenton or some of the other NFL quarterbacks.

Yet today’s so called experts just don’t get it and I am sorry they don’t because Tebow is a better ambassador for the game than many of them were during their playing days.

I don’t know what was more embarrassing Friday night in Pensacola – the parents or the football players.

The Pensacola Sports Association in partnership with various sponsors do an outstanding job providing area seniors a stage to showcase their talents.

My first experience at a PSA event involved Adrion Chambers, who this past summer won a World Series ring with the St. Louis Cardinals after his football career came to an end.

It was at the first PSA All-Star football game at Escambia High where he suffered an injury that derailed his career at Mississippi State.

But those were the good days and this past game was what I would call an embarrassment.

Why?

They had to end the game with almost four minutes left on the clock because some players felt it was better to start a fight than play the game.

High school seniors, who could possibly impress a college scout looking for a player, decided it was better to show their backside than giving their all to finish the game.

It didn’t matter to them the hours the coaches or those organizing the event had put into giving them this golden opportunity.

I understand football is an emotional game and tempers can get out of line – I’ve been there and done that.

But I cannot understand the need for a player to start the final skirmish Friday night.

Where you mad you were getting beat?

What was wrong?

Maybe you should have been sat down a few more times for issues like this instead of being rewarded.

Maybe your coach is at fault for letting you get away with this attitude?

When I played my coach understood a face mask penalty or a late hit on a quarterback when we were trying to get to the quarterback, but not for the reasons flags were thrown Friday night at the PSA game.

I wouldn’t help you up or shov

Here is a photo of the skirmish at the PSA All-Star game, which ultimately led officials to call the game at 27-14 with just under four minutes left in the contest at Woodham Middle School.

e you, if you were on the ground waste your own energy to get up, don’t look to me with a hand extended.

But while I was saddened by the display of our youth on this night and questioned how some were coached and disciplined my biggest shock was after the game while walking to my car.

I heard several parents trying to justify what took place on the field.

Some talked about their son being hit with ‘cheap shots’ all night long or being blocked in the back, or they were holding my son and he couldn’t take it any more.

There was almost 200 yards in penalties called Friday night and two flags were offsetting since both teams were called for personal fouls.

While one player from each team was ejected.

The point is despite it being football or any other sport when you put on your schools colors or the colors of any team you have a responsibility to that team or colors.

If you want your school or team to be look at as thugs, jerks, or whatever then continue playing and acting like you did on Friday night.

If you want to play on Saturday or what ever day your particular school plays college football then you better change your attitude.

Because if you were on my team as a coach and played that way you would be on the bench until you changed your ways or there would be someone else in line for your spot and scholarship.

It is not your right to play football, it is a privilege.

Today all eyes in the sporting world are focused on State College, Penn., and Penn State University.

A former assistant football coach at Penn State, Jerry Sandusky, has been indicted for sexual assault.

While the legal system is running its course and the verdict of innocence or guilt involving Sandusky, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz has yet to be handed down, there are questions we all must answer when it comes to protecting children.

Curley and Schultz are not indicted for sexual assault, but they are alleged to have covered up what was reported to them.

One of those reporting the matter to his supervisors was legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno.

Paterno himself is also under the gun because some wonder what his responsibility is.

But are we all as a society responsible because we have continued to allow this crime, which takes the innocence of children away, to continue.

While I ponder this there are a couple of instances that I recall in the last week that bothers me, which happened in the sporting world, and I did nothing at that moment.

Instance one was at the Pace-Catholic football game.

A player for Catholic tackled a Pace player near the sideline. While making the tackle the Catholic player came down with a cramp. Pace trainers quickly tended to the down player and soon the Catholic trainers came across the field to tend to the downed player.

Then came the head coach.

He asked the player if he was dead and said that if he wasn’t to get off the field.

Well coach I was right there and he was off the field, but not off far enough to be safe if the game continued.

I was bothered by this statement and some of us talked about this on the sideline.

Am I guilty for not saying something to the administration of Pensacola Catholic? Yes, and as I write this I am ashamed.

I know if I heard a coach talk to my child this way I would be in a fight, but I let it go until now.

I kept my silence.

Instance two was Monday night when I attended a basketball game at West Florida Baptist Academy.

The Conquerors were playing the Aletheia Christian Academy Lions and I got there for the end of the girls varsity game.

Unfortunately I wish I had not gotten there so early.

During the final quarter I watched a WFBA and ACA become entangled and the way the Aletheia Christian player fell I had that sickening feeling you get when you see what appears to be a knee injury in the pit of my stomach.

The knot in the pit of my stomach got even worse as I watched the young lady try to stand and collapse back to the floor.

Officials called for the coach, but she told the officials she was not coming over.

A few moments later the same player took at tumble at the baseline near where I was standing. I heard her smack the back of her head on the floor and I got that sick feeling once again.

Amazingly the officials did not have to ask, but order the girls coach to come out to the aid of her injured player.

Even the boys coach of Aletheia Christian had what appeared to be an odd look on his face during all of this as I walked toward the West Florida bench during this stoppage of play.

As the Aletheia Christian coach helped the player off the court, who I later learned was her own daughter, I watched her stumble and was reminded of former teammates in football and how they walked when they had suffered a concussion and wanted to play on instead of leaving the field.

Later I watched the three officials talk to the same coach during halftime of the boys game and they pretty much told her the next time they called her out on the floor for a player she better answer and do so quickly.

Being old school or a tough coach is fine. Some of my coaches never even called me by my God given name until after I graduated.

That was then, but should we accept this attitude today or do we take a stand?

If we as adults do not do a better job of protecting the kids who are doing no more than playing a game or being left in our care then we are doing them a disservice as adults. There is just no excuse for this, sick or not.

I don’t know what the correct answer might be for you, but I will tell you there are two calls I will be making to let my concerns be known.

If it costs someone a write-up or their job I can live with that, but if something happens to a child because of actions like this then I could not face myself in the mirror when I shaved or brushed my teeth in the morning.

I am not going to live my life with a guilty conscious. I have done enough wrong, but I am not going to intentionally wrong an innocent child.

God has given the world a blessing with the life of children and we should protect them, but with what is alleged to have occurred in State College, Penn., as well as in some other instances such as junior hockey we as adults are failing at our job.

Unfortunately this is more than an indictment of some in sports, but us as a society of adults who have let the problem continue as we quietly accept it.

I got a phone call while I was covering the Pace-Catholic football game.

My friend said, “You’ve got to see the truck race.”

After the game I watched and what I saw was sickening and scary.

Sickening because of the wreck I saw and scary because I have seen drivers lose their lives in incidents that were a lot less.

Kyle Busch, aka Little Shrub, does not appreciate what life has afforded him.

Busch feels that racing in NASCAR is his right instead of a privilege afforded to him by some great car owners and sponsors.

NASCAR took the right move parking Bush for this weekend, but Mike Helton and his brain trust have a lot more yet to do.

I have listened to people in the wake of Friday night’s incident in Texas.  In defending Busch they recall the battles between the late Dale Earnhardt and Darrell Waltrip or even the legendary battle that put NASCAR on the map after the Daytona 500 when Cale Yarborough battled Bobby and Donnie Allison on live television after a last lap crash.

The aforementioned accidents all occurred under green conditions, while Friday night’s truck race incident occurred under yellow, a caution.

Busch, despite what he said after NASCAR parked him, caused this accident.

Couldn’t you imagine what he would say after a race if a non-chase driver raced him that hard let alone let to crashing him in a race.

Yet this is what he did to Ron Hornaday at Texas on Friday night. Hornaday, a truck series title contender yet again was essentially eliminated from the title chase because of this incident.

NASCAR made a good move Saturday morning by parking Bush for the remainder of the weekend, but they need to send a sound and clear message to Kyle on Monday.

Busch, despite how it might effect Joe Gibbs Racing or Kyle Busch Motorsports, needs to be parked the remainder of 2011 and place him on probation for the entire 2012 season in all three divisions.

Racing in NASCAR is not a right but a privilege and with a decisive action like this Busch might realize what he appears to take for granted.

Little Shrub is a great driver and could rank right up there with many of NASCAR’s best, but his attitude and actions are eroding any chance he has as NASCAR greatness or immortality.

Joe Gibbs Racing could punish Busch, but that would not fix the problem at hand. It is NASCAR’s responsibility to act swiftly, because Busch could just land with another team or race under his own banner if NASCAR doesn’t act swiftly.

I will find it very interesting to see what NASCAR will do on Monday since this could effect the series’ position for its future.

NASCAR must act swiftly because Bush has put the series in a corner they cannot escape from with a nod and smile as they call this just a racing incident.

If not, then Mike Helton could be in the position he was in 10 years ago when he announced the passing of Dale Earnhardt. And all of it could be because Kyle Busch once again lost his temper on the track like he did Friday night.

Everyone involved is very fortunate the only thing lost in this wreck was parts of a safer barrier and two trucks. I feel it could have been much, much worse and I feel that Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip would agree with me after hearing their commentary during the race.

Wondering if this is the true Kyle Busch, his pit sign from an earlier NASCAR/ARCA race I attended

I can tell you I am pulling the thorn out of my side, because I will no longer let Little Shrub bother me and I will no longer bother to support Joe Gibbs Racing or his sponsors.

That is me doing my part in sending Busch a message.

Let’s see what message NASCAR will send or if they will wait to read the next action and are left trying to do damage control.

There are some people who we as sportswriters have a blind trust in.

In every case we are like that little kid in the movie, “Eight Men Out” which portrayed the Chicago Black Sox scandal.

The best part of the movies is where the young man looks at his hero “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and says, “Say it ain’t so, Joe!”

Well Jackson was not the first sporting figure to disappoint his public and he will never be the last.

Wednesday I read the news with angst and disgust.

Why?

A sporting figure I got to know, Jeremy Mayfield, an Owensboro, Ky., native was arrested.

The charge was possession of methamphetamine and possible possession of stolen property worth approximately $100,000.

I understand people take things or steal, but my main issue is the methamphetamine charge.

When Mayfield was suspended by NASCAR for a failed random drug test in 2009 he adamantly denied the charges and sued the sport.

There was a part of me who knew Mayfield was guilty, but the side of me that had met him and got to know him while covering motor sports in Kentucky still wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Call it being naive, but there are some you have met that you feel you can take at their word.

Ala Strawberry Dumbell, there was a part of me wanting to believe Mayfield.

It didn’t matter that people like Darrell Waltrip, Michael Waltrip, and the Green Brothers, and my other Kentucky racing acquaintances had told me through their silence on the matter.

Mayfield sold his soul on a failed reality show and basically showed his silliness to not just me, but America.

There was the lawsuit that involved his family where he charged his stepmom with killing his father after she reported seeing him use meth at least 30 times in a seven year period.

Lisa Mayfield and Jeremy Mayfield settled this lawsuit.

While some wanted to believe Jeremy, the writing was on the wall.

It just took a little longer than many thought it would.

Tuesday night the final bell tolled on Jeremy Mayfield who was charged with possession of 1.5 grams of meth and could face charges of items belonging to Team Red Bull, the state of North Carolina, and local equipment parts companies Larry Grant Company and Lee Boy Inc., according to the incident report.

Jeremy the card are not stacked against you like you might want the people to believe.

Fate has finally put you a lap down and if you don’t straighten up your life you will soon fall several laps behind.

The decision is yours, but you can no longer say it isn’t so anymore.

I am excited about the upcoming football weekend.

When you have No. 1 vs. No. 2 is an awesome experience for every college football fan.

It is even better when you have two schools like LSU and Alabama, two SEC institutions, squaring off.

My grandfather felt God watched SEC football and with what he told me I can just imagine the ultimate one sitting down in front of his big screen with a bowl of popcorn and watching an outstanding exhibition of football.

But my rub is what people are doing.

If you haven’t heard there are people willing to pay $10,000 for a football ticket to this game…and then can get them sent to them overnight for an additional $16 to $17.

There is nothing other than a home or a car I would be willing to pay $10,000 for.

Yet some people are so fanatical about this game they are willing to fork over that much money for the game.

I have scratched my head at the salaries pro athletes get paid and even more to the fact college athletes want to be paid when they are getting a free education.

But when there are idiots out there willing to pay $10,000 for a ticket to a regular season college game then I can’t blame them.

I do not see any event worth $10,000, which is why I might not ever get the chance to have that much money.

But we cry and complain about issues, yet just pleasantly smile when someone has this much money to just throw around.

If you need help let me break it down for you:

LSU-Alabama Ticket cost – $10,000

That is $2,500 a quarter

or better yet $9,999 for just being plain stupid.

Do like the rest of the poor people and stay home to watch it on TV.

Yes the headline tells the tale for eight football teams in the NFL.

Who is going to throw in the towel after week six and decide to toss their future in the ring for the ‘Suck 4 Luck’ Sweepstakes.

For pro football organizations it is very shameful to see eight organizations with zero or just one win so far in 2011.

For Miami (0-5), Indianapolis (0-6), and St. Louis (0-5) they are off to auspicious starts.

Just behind them are Jacksonville (1-5), Denver (1-4), Minnesota (1-5), Carolina (1-5), and Arizona 1-4.

To help with the conversation lets look at each team starting with the win-less teams in the NFL so far this season.

Miami Dolphins (0-5)

If there ever was a team in need of a quarterback it is the Dolphins. Despite their best efforts to find a quarterback – Chad Pennington – and other tosses in the Bay of Biscayne and the Atlantic Ocean there has never been a quarterback to be had. The last two quarterbacks of note in the Dolphins history are Bob Griese and Dan Marino in that order. Miami wouldn’t have to go far to throw in the towel, but with it they might not only throw in the towel to attract Andrew Luck, they might throw in coach Tony Sporano, who could be exiled to Little Havana.

Indianapolis Colts (0-6)

The Colts have pretty much seen their season end as Peyton Manning is trying to recover from not just one, but two neck surgeries. Manning, who has served the Colts and Jim Ursay well, could be in the sunset of his future NFL Hall of Fame career. The problem is the last time the Colts had a draft pick and he was from Stanford he ended up in Denver reminiscent of the way the Colts left Baltimore for Indianapolis. Could Luck end up refusing to play for the Colts like the last Cardinal quarterback be a potential number one pick like John Elway. Better yet, would Luck want to carry the clipboard for Manning even if he does try to come back?

St. Louis Rams (0-5)

Sam Bradford seemed to be the savior for the Rams in the Gateway Arch City. Now the only arch in St. Louis for the Rams is the bottom and top half of the zero they currently sport in the win column. Bradford looked like a savior last season as the Rams almost made the playoffs when he was a rookie, but this year the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks look to be in the process of returning the NFC West to its former glory.

Jacksonville Jaguars (1-5)

Jacksonville has one win so far this season and due to the nature of their start the Jags have gone to starting 2011 draft pick Blane Gabbart out of Missouri after former Browns quarterback Luke McCown hit rough times in two game. The Jaguars have tried their luck with Byron Leftwich as well as David Garrard following the early successes they enjoyed with Mark Brunnell. Unfortunately the Jags have troubles filling their stadium and the bank is not sold on two big money young arms with Gabbart already in the fold.

Denver Broncos (1-4)

It hasn’t taken long for John Fox to give his blessings to the fans wishes and starting Tim Tebow. Is Tebow the answer? Many say Tebow is the real thing, but the only thing he has shown so far is to rally the fans. Pretty soon the real quarterback will come to the forefront, but it could be too late despite the efforts of Fox and John Elway to return the Broncos to the gallant days of old when Elway was on the field instead of the front office.

Minnesota Vikings (1-5)

Donovan McNabb was not the answer the Vikings were looking for after the Brett Farve days. Former Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder might be the future, but the Vikings need a lot more than a quarterback. While the Vikings have a chance of winning the Luck sweepstakes they would be much better off if they would trade the choice to someone who wants luck instead of continuing with the rebuilding plan that doesn’t seem to have any direction.

Carolina Panthers (1-5)

The Panthers could turn the Luck sweepstakes into a jackpot for a bevy of picks that would allow them to surround Cam Newton with some other talent in a rebuilding plan that seems ahead of schedule.

Arizona Cardinals (1-4)

Arizona traded its future for Kevin Kolb. Kevin who? Oh the guy who was supposed to replace Donovan McNabb and lost his starting job to Michael Vick. Now the Cardinals and the Philadelphia Eagles both stink, but the Cardinals are still trying to find a glimpse of the brilliance they had with Kurt Warner. Unfortunately the only thing Arizona and Stanford have in common is their mascots and colors. But they will be very blue if they even try pick Luck as the team has constantly floundered in mediocrity.

Standing on the outside with a possible chance of falling into a spot pending a team free-fall is Cleveland Browns (2-3), Kansas City Chiefs (2-3), Dallas Cowboys (2-3), Philadelphia Eagles (2-4), and Seattle (2-3).

I can guess what games Andrew Luck will be keeping an eye on this season as things get clearer on who could lose their way to the number one pick in the 2012 April NFL Draft.

I can only guess Luck and company will be watching:

• Miami hosting Denver on Oct. 23
• Indianapolis vs Jacksonville on Nov. 13
• Miami at Dallas on Nov. 24
• Miami vs. Philly on Dec. 11
• Indy at Jacksonville on Jan. 1

I understand Hank Williams, Jr. is not politically correct.

Heck when I first started listening to Hank Jr., a man many fans know as Bocephus, what attracted us to him was his tell it like it is music and attitude.

There is no glitz or glamour with Hank past his sunglasses or his guitar.

His attitude is just as gritty and hardcore as his music, yet some in Mickey Mouse land get upset at his answers to questions in the media.

Hank Williams Jr. is a lot of things and politically correctness is not on the list of his achievements.

Isn’t it ironic we have selective political correctness today?

Now after years of being the face of Monday Night Football, the edgy country music outlaw could be on his way out.

Why?

For being true to himself and telling you what he thinks.

Hank’s appearance on Fox and Friends Monday got him in trouble with Disney/ABC/ESPN and the entire world of Monday night football.

My question is what did anyone expect?

Hank is not going to run for political office unless you are looking for someone who shoots you straight on what the issue is.

He is not one to expect to be politically correct, any but correct.

I guess that is one reason why I liked his music so much growing up and still do today.

Hank in not so many words noted that those in Washington are suffering from cranial rectal inversion.

I know he compared President Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner playing golf this summer to Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doing the same.

We are not talking about ping pong diplomacy like former President Richard Nixon used in relations with China.

These are two men who should be working on passing a budget instead of playing a round of golf.

Our nation has averted a shut down on at least three occasions because we have yet to pass a budget last year.

If my memory serves me correctly we have not had a true budget for almost 900 days.

But Hank Jr. is wrong in getting fed up with politics as usual and calling things the way I see it.

Well Bocephus had it correct and even with an old tune that I call one of my all time favorites…Dinosaur.

Here is the chorus…

Cause you see I’m a dinosaur
I should’ve died a long time before
Have pity on a dinosaur
Hand me my hat
Excuse me man
But where’s the door

While I might not be politically correct, maybe more than just Hank Jr. should ask for his hat and find the door.

Jimbo Fisher was disappointed with the turnout of fans the Seminoles attracted for week 1 of the college football season.

I didn’t realize that an attendance of 72,226 in these economic times was a bad thing.

Now it is not he number Notre Dame and the Michigan Wolverines drew at the Big House this past weekend, but 114,804 is not bad when you host your first night game against a long time rival.

Fisher and the Noles have started the season against Charleston Southern and the University of Louisiana-Monroe.

ULM features former Pace quarterback Aaron Munoz handling the punting chores, but lets take a look at something else Coach Fisher and those upset at the turnout didn’t think about.

With two games at home and a total attendance of 147,500 plus fans reported, Florida State has smacked the two teams by a total of 96-10.

Not much to cheer about there.

In some eyes it would appear the big bully is back and beating up on teams just for kick or a payoff.

To me that kind of attitude is starting to resemble those pay per view boxing matches for an astronomical costs that goes two rounds if we are lucky.

Fisher might have also forgotten about that little weather issue on week one called Tropical Storm Lee as they hosted the Warhawks.

Even thought the seats were empty many of them were paid for, but ended up vacant because who would want to watch a lamb being taken to slaughter.

I feel safe to say this weekend’s game between the Noles and Oklahoma is not only going to be jammed pack, but would live up to the number Fisher is expecting.

While I like college football, many need to understand the plight of the public when it comes to going to all these football games.

Some schools are so strapped financially they not only charge you to attend the game six or seven dollars a head, but you have to pay for parking and don’t forget those concessions.

Going to a high school event is getting quite expensive so forget about being able to afford a trip to the college football games each week.

Football fans are picky and will spend their money on the really good games, not beating up on a small school you are playing to ensure a bowl game or only show up because the check they receive will fund almost every other program at the university or college.

A lot of school would love to average over 73,000 fans a game in attendance.

Maybe some of these college coaches should be thankful for what they have instead of complaining about what they want.

Or does the attendance figures have another bonus most of us fans are not aware of.

I thought I needed to get my eyes checked this weekend.

Of all the things to see on my television was a wide array of fashion statements at of places but a football game.

I am a far cry from being a traditionalist and I understand things change and move forward, but the last straw came Monday night when Maryland faced Miami.

I endured the new uniforms worn by the University of Kentucky (my old college), which resembled the Indianapolis Colts. It was just too bad the offense still resembled that of Kentucky’s.

Then there was the traditional statement made by Oregon, which I have come to accept, but if there ever was a reason to claim a lack of institutional control it had to be with the person who approved or designed this Maryland uniform.

Oklahoma wore grey jerseys and there was even the all red worn by the University of Georgia.

My issue is not with something different, but my question is who dreams up these nightmares in the name of fashion.

Fashion does not win football games.

Now I am not crying for a team to wear the same uniforms for a number of years like Penn State or Alabama, but if you are going to change it up a little how about using a little sense.

If this is truly fashion statement from the uniform makers then maybe we all can fathom the old brown and yellow uniforms worn a couple of seasons ago by the Denver Broncos or better yet, maybe the Houston Astros can come out with the sunburst uniforms of my childhood.

I spent most of the night wondering if I was watching Ponce de Leon University when the Terps were going right to left on my television and was overcome by the urge to yell TAXI when they went from left to right.

All I can say tonight is I am glad my daughter came and switched the channel to Disney so I didn’t have to call the television repair man on Tuesday to say there was something wrong with my television set.